{"id":376861,"date":"2025-04-30T16:26:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T14:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=376861"},"modified":"2025-04-30T16:27:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T14:27:01","slug":"blackout-in-spain-to-cost-2-4-billion-euro-likely-due-to-solar-plants-blind-and-biased-abc-says-cause-is-a-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=376861","title":{"rendered":"Blackout in Spain to cost 2-4 billion Euro, likely due to solar plants \u2014 blind and biased ABC says \u201ccause is a mystery\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"723\" data-attachment-id=\"376868\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=376868\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/01b074f6a-f92e-4477-a8b5-7616c987cf26.png?fit=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" 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href=\"https:\/\/joannenova.com.au\/2025\/04\/blackout-in-spain-to-cost-2-4-billion-euro-likely-due-to-solar-plants-blind-and-biased-abc-says-cause-is-a-mystery\/\">JoNova<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Jo Nova<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" data-attachment-id=\"376863\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=376863\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-689.png?fit=600%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-689.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-689.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-689.png?resize=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-689.png?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-689.png?resize=450%2C450&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-689.png?resize=60%2C60&amp;ssl=1 60w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-689.png?resize=550%2C550&amp;ssl=1 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest news is that power has been restored in Spain, Portugal and parts of France, but the economic loss of a blackout that affected up to 55 million people for half a day is estimated at 2-4 billion Euro. Even Red Electrica, the Spanish Grid manager now says the initial event was a sudden power loss that was \u201clikely solar\u201d. And to top it off, the group that own the Spanish grid manager warned in February that with so many \u201crenewables\u201d the grid faced the risk of disconnections.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"313\" data-attachment-id=\"376866\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=376866\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-691.png?fit=200%2C313&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"200,313\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-691.png?fit=200%2C313&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-691.png?resize=200%2C313&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-376866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-691.png?w=200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-691.png?resize=192%2C300&amp;ssl=1 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile the billion-dollar-ABC is so far behind the times, on prime-time news tonight they were still saying the blackouts in Spain were a complete mystery \u2014 and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-04-29\/spain-portugal-power-outage-how-it-happened\/105227080\">did not mention renewables once<\/a>, even though energy experts had warned this would happen for years, and were asking that question yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are three days from an election and the ABC are running cover for the Labor-Greens party and hiding from Australians that too many renewables and a lack of stable thermal or nuclear power plants were a front running cause. Even yesterday we knew that solar was supplying 60% of the Spanish grid, and that there was almost no spinning inertia on the Iberian Peninsula. If Spain had hosted the Olympics this week, the ABC-BBC-CBC agitprop units would have raved about it being \u201c78% renewable\u201d. But when it\u2019s an Olympic-size blackout,\u00a0<em>crickets<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ABC has a whole \u201cscience unit\u201d but one blogger with no government funding is two days ahead of them. Will they catch up tomorrow, or will they continue to put their own personal voting preferences and juicy career prospects ahead of Australian voters?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spanish grid operator added that it was \u201cvery likely\u201d (\u201cmuy posible\u201d) that the 1st event was solar generation. But also said it was lacking data to say it conclusively.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5DVQQhMYIy\">https:\/\/t.co\/5DVQQhMYIy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014 Javier Blas (@JavierBlas)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JavierBlas\/status\/1917172284005003428?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A renewables-dominant grid has many points of failure and very few points of stability<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It sounds similar to the South Australian blackout of 2016. Once a few wind or solar generators trip out for some reason, the voltage or frequency shocks in the system cause other generators to drop out and interconnectors to disconnect. There is no inherent stability in the system because they lack the heavy spinning turbines. Our entire national grids were designed around heavy 500-ton turbines which spin at 3,000 revolutions per minute (or 3,600 RPM in the USA). That\u2019s an awesome amount of inertia, and all that stability was \u201cfree\u201d \u2014 it was just part of the grid. But the subsidized market, and the pagan fixation on \u201crenewables\u201d, because they supposedly stop storms next century, guarantees that reliable turbines get pushed out of the market. The crazy-balloon has filled the room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Spain, Portugal switch back on,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/spains-power-generation-nearly-back-normal-after-monday-blackout-says-grid-2025-04-29\/\">&nbsp;seek answers after biggest ever blackout<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Reuters<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said his government had not ruled out any hypothesis.&nbsp;\u201cWe must not rush to (conclusions) and (commit) errors through haste,\u201d Sanchez said on Tuesday. \u201cWe will find out what happened in those five seconds.\u201d<strong>REE said it had identified two incidents of power generation loss<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>probably from solar plants,<\/strong>&nbsp;in Spain\u2019s southwest that caused instability in the electric system and led to a breakdown of its interconnection with France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Redeia, which owns Red Electrica, warned in February in its annual report that it faced a risk of \u201cdisconnections due to the high penetration of renewables without the technical capacities necessary for an adequate response in the face of disturbances\u201d.&nbsp;Investment bank&nbsp;<strong>RBC said the economic cost of the blackout could range between 2.25 billion and 4.5 billion euros<\/strong>, blaming the Spanish government for being too complacent about infrastructure in a system dependent on solar power with little battery storage.&nbsp;SEAT said power returned to its Barcelona car plant at 1 a.m. on Tuesday but that it still wasn\u2019t at full production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Volkswagen said its plant in Navarra lost a day of production \u2013 equivalent to 1,400 cars \u2013 as it was not able to restart until 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Will the real cost of solar and wind power please stand up?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2-4 billion Euro bill plus the expenses for Big-backup-Batteries and extra interconnectors must now be added to the electricity bill estimates of solar and wind power. All the past costs per kilowatt of magical Spanish solar power were all obviously fantasy underestimates. People&nbsp;<em>thought<\/em>&nbsp;solar was cheap, but it was all an illusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Negative prices are not a free lunch. The toxic prices due to the solar glut at lunchtime, means that reliable power flees the grid, lest it get shafted with a big bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-04-29\/the-five-seconds-that-plunged-spain-into-darkness\">Bloomberg:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An excess of solar output could have contributed to the incident. Spain has reported an unprecedented number of hours with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-04-11\/spain-s-nuclear-shutdown-set-to-test-renewables-success-story\">negative power prices<\/a>&nbsp;in recent months as more solar and wind power gets injected into the grid. Still, the oversupply of power hasn\u2019t previously caused blackouts in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The speeding car hadn\u2019t crashed til it crashed, officer. How were we to know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This was a system on the brink<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In&nbsp;<em>El Confidential,<\/em>&nbsp;in Spanish we hear that excess solar pushed out the nuclear power and things were so unstable there were fluctuations on the grid in the hour leading up to the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elconfidencial.com\/economia\/2025-04-29\/el-sistema-electrico-espanol-salto-por-los-aires-por-un-exceso-de-confianza-en-la-energia-solar_4118613\/\">Red El\u00e9ctrica rules out a cyberattack, and everything points to overconfidence in solar energy.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something that has already caused problems recently. The Repsol oil company\u2019s refinery in Cartagena, one of Europe\u2019s largest diesel producers, had to shut down a few weeks ago due to power problems.&nbsp;<strong>The blackout occurred at 12:32 p.m., but the system began to fail at 11:30 a.m.<\/strong>&nbsp;With the sun shining, operators began to notice fluctuations in the grid with photovoltaic production at full blast. This excess sunlight caused the gas-fired combined cycle plants to reduce their production to make way for photovoltaic power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In that sense, nuclear power didn\u2019t enter the market to avoid losing money, and there was no need to rely on hydroelectric plants to avoid water loss. Without firmness technologies, the voltage became more fluctuating and vulnerable than ever. And then the incident happened.&nbsp;<strong>The 5-second voltage drop is an eternity in the electrical system and tripped the \u201csystem differentials,\u201d shutting down everything at once: the photovoltaic, the cycles, the four remaining nuclear plants.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The industry insists we were lucky because the transformers didn\u2019t burn out, which would have caused a blackout lasting more than 24 hours. \u201d&nbsp;<strong>Red El\u00e9ctrica miscalculated the risks and allowed the closure of three nuclear power plants that would have provided stability (voltage) to the system<\/strong>&nbsp;,\u201d the industry claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So there were plenty of warnings that things were going wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">If only the media in Europe had mentioned the 2016 SA Electricity crisis, people in Spain would have known:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People saw&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/joannenova.com.au\/2016\/09\/the-south-australian-black-out-a-state-running-without-enough-thermal-reserve-to-cope-with-contingencies\/\">The South Australian (SA) black out<\/a>&nbsp;coming. There were warnings that the dominance of renewables made it vulnerable. Then when it came, it all fell over in an instant \u2014&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/joannenova.com.au\/2016\/10\/sa-blackout-three-towers-six-windfarms-and-12-seconds\/\">Three towers, six windfarms and 12 seconds to disaster<\/a>. Ultimately the 40%&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/joannenova.com.au\/2017\/02\/sa-blackout-a-grid-crippled-by-complexity\/\">renewable SA grid was crippled by complexity<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp; The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/joannenova.com.au\/2017\/03\/aemo-report-blames-renewables-sa-blackout-due-to-lack-of-synchronous-inertia\/\">AEMO Report blamed renewables<\/a>: The SA Blackout was due to lack of \u201csynchronous inertia\u201d, they said.&nbsp; The early estimates suggest the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/joannenova.com.au\/2016\/12\/south-australia-blackout-costs-367m-normal-electricity-twice-the-price-reserve-shortfalls-coming-in-january-2\/\">blackout costs South Australia at least $367m<\/a>, plus their normal electricity is twice the price. Welcome to the future of unreliable electricity: More bad luck for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/joannenova.com.au\/2016\/12\/more-bad-luck-for-south-australia-yet-another-blackout-300-powerlines-down-125000-homes-cut-off\/\">South Australia, yet another blackout followed the first one,<\/a>&nbsp;300 powerlines down, 125,000 homes cut off. By 2019, things still weren\u2019t secure,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/joannenova.com.au\/2019\/10\/even-with-a-6000-gift-people-dont-want-batteries-with-their-solar-sa-scheme-fails\/\">SA was offering $6,000 subsidies to buy batteries but people didn\u2019t want them.&nbsp;<\/a>&nbsp;In 2020&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/joannenova.com.au\/2020\/06\/sa-still-at-risk-of-blackout-one-third-of-solar-pv-switching-off-to-save-state-needs-1-5b-interconnector-bandaid-to-nsw\/\">SA is still at risk of blackout,<\/a>&nbsp;one third of solar PV \u201cswitching off\u201d to save state, and they need a $1.5b interconnector bandaid to NSW. In 2022, they suffered more blackouts.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/joannenova.com.au\/2022\/11\/renewable-south-australia-islanded-flying-by-the-seat-of-their-pants-afraid-of-a-solar-surge-on-a-sunny-day\/\">South Australia was Islanded, flying by the seat of their pants,<\/a>&nbsp;afraid of a solar surge on a sunny day. By 2023 the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/joannenova.com.au\/2024\/12\/renewables-star-state-urgently-wants-to-force-two-diesel-plants-back-to-stop-blackouts\/\">Renewables Star state \u201curgently\u201d wants to force two diesel plants back to stop blackouts<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pain of bad decisions never ends, unless they admit they were stupid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest news is that power has been restored in Spain, Portugal and parts of France, but the economic loss of a blackout that affected up to 55 million people for half a day is estimated at 2-4 billion Euro. Even Red Electrica, the Spanish Grid manager now says the initial event was a sudden power loss that was \u201clikely solar\u201d. 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